Karim Zeroual

Children's TV Presenter
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroChildren's TV Presenter
isActor Television presenter
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth14 November 1999, London, UK
Age25 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

Karim Zeroual (born 14 November 1993) is a presenter for BBC's CBBC. He starred as Sadiq in The Sparticle Mystery, which ran for three series between 2011 and 2015, and has also appeared in EastEnders, Blue Peter, Top Class and Saturday Mash-Up!

In 2019 he appeared in the seventeenth series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing where he partnered Welsh professional dancer Amy Dowden. The couple were runners up.

Early life

Zeroual was born in London to parents of Moroccan heritage and was brought up by his mother. He attended theatre school in London.

Stage and television career

He starred as Sadiq in The Sparticle Mystery, which ran for three series between 2011 and 2015, and has had more than two million hits on BBC iPlayer to date. He has also appeared on EastEnders, Blue Peter, Top Class and Saturday Mash-Up!

Zeroual has been a BBC CBBC presenter since 2014, presenting directly from the CBBC HQ. He has also presented Young Dancer and Wimbledon Live and has performed in London’s West End in musical theatre shows such as The Lion King and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In 2019 he started filming a brand new travel and sport documentary for CBBC called A Week to Beat the World, in which he takes three British children to countries including Guatemala, Brazil and Japan to play national sports and see if they can beat the locals at their own game.

Strictly Come Dancing

In 2019 he competed in the seventeenth series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Welsh professional dancer Amy Dowden. The pair received the first perfect 40 of the series for their Jive in Week 11 and were runners up in the competition.

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoreResult
Revel HorwoodMabuseBallasTonioliTotal
1Cha-Cha-Cha / "If I Can't Have You"887831No Elimination
2Foxtrot / "The Way You Look Tonight"888832Safe
3Samba / "Kung Fu Fighting"676726Safe
4Tango / "Paradise"91091038Safe
5Salsa / "Who Let the Dogs Out?"8109936Safe
6Paso Doble / "Smalltown Boy"777829Safe
7Quickstep / "Mr. Pinstripe Suit"910101039Safe
8Viennese Waltz / "Give Me Love"688830Safe
9Charleston / "Happy"910101039Safe
10Contemporary / "Drops of Jupiter"99101038Bottom Two
11Jive / "You Can't Stop the Beat"1010101040Safe
12Argentine Tango / "Libertango"
American Smooth / "Sweet Caroline"
8
9
10
10
9
9
9
10
36
38
Bottom Two
13Quickstep / "Mr. Pinstripe Suit"
Showdance / "A Million Dreams"
Jive / "You Can't Stop the Beat"
10
9
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
40
39
40
Runner-up
  • Blue score awarded by guest judge Alfonso Riberio
  • Green number indicates Karim & Amy were at the top of the leaderboard
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